Goddamn Poems

If Loving You Was A Sin

...If loving you was a sin,
Then I’ve sinned in silence every day since you left.
And I’d do it again.
Every lifetime. Every breath.

They told me,
“She’s not yours.
This isn’t right.
You’ll rui...

It's Alright

...I thought it's alright when he skips the talking;
Getting hot, and then boiling over promptly.

And it's alright; he won't put me in a coffin; 
I'm not dead, I was just unconscious. 

I thought...

Suppress Everything And You Wont Ever Get Hurt

...Love me, 
goddamn it, 
just love me. 

I 
know that 
I'm worthy 
or deserving of 
something, 

at 
least, 
don't make 
me have 
to
get on 
my knees 
and beg again. 

Oh, wait, 
I ...

Union Correctional Institution

...
the heat presses down like a drunk cop’s boot,
metal fences shiver in the sticky Florida sun,
concrete walls spit their old secrets at you,
black mildew crawls across everything,
like it's aliv...

Your Own Personal Demons

...
they show up at 2:37 a.m.
not with pitchforks,
but with your mother’s voice,
your boss’s smirk,
the girl who left in '89.

they don’t knock.
they seep in through the cracks—
in the plaster,...

Depression

...Is that ok to live with all the same conclusions
Or is it like worn clothes when you do not
Care what to wear in your goddamn seclusion 
And like the old familiar recipies you’ve got
You see no c...

instant crush

...blushing cheeks
like roses or watermelons.
heart aflutter - it's silly,
to stutter - 
stutter?
I hardly know 'er (ha)
stut
      tering every word

all too aware of my gaze
and the magnetis...

Santa Claus Was Afraid to Pass Through Port-au-Prince, Haiti

...Papa Noël was afraid to pass through on Christmas Day
In the streets of Port-au-Prince. Bullets were being fired in droves
Sporadically, haphazardly. Many people were hiding under beds
Naughty ter...

We Are Difficult

...We're HARD. We're HUMAN. We're HARD.

Hard on ourselves, hard on each other.
Mirrored faces, reflecting
the same goddamn questions:

Who are you?
Who am I?
What's the point of this mess?

W...

Lingering Embers of an Abandoned Campsite

...I'm drawing the sun on an empty ceiling 
But I still bring the clouds in my own way 
You wanted a goddamn college essay 
But there was nothing else to say 
She's the tortured soul in all of us 
...

The Gun Shop

...The gun seems gun-shy in this space;
where deer hides hang on rustic walls
and granddad-tick-tocks beat, instead
of hearts in hollowed skins. The gun

 a “trophy-bagger” in its rack, 
 a loud-m...

Goddamn

...You fuc**ing hurt me and in your eyes
I found desdain instead of light
your pale face and your heart so dry
were your legacy for my life...

You fuc***&ing screwed all my past
you came to show ...

Nineteen Seventies

...
They talk about how the country these days,
has fallen into such a Goddamn mess.
It’s worse than anyone has ever seen,
must have forgot the seventies, I guess.

They talk about how the ex-pres...

Greatest story yet to be told

...
Somewhere on another world, in a far away galaxy 
Aliens built a quantum-scope, our world they could see
I also built a similar contraption, and maxed out the lens
Now I witness these ETs observ...

See Me

...See Me
I want, desperately, to Impress
Why
I don't know why
Hmm
I just, despairingly, want to Impress
I, sincerely, wish you knew why
Why, pray tell
So, interestingly, I may want to Impress t...

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